>>I am looking for a really big data file to use in a VFP demo. I wanted something with a few hundred thousand records, like street names or postal codes or something like that I could run queries on both using DBF files and also with the data transfered to SQL Server. If someone has a file they'd like to share, or a routine that builds a big file (a few hundred megs, a few million records!) I would appreciate it.
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>>Or if you can point me to somewhere on the web where i can grab a big text file I can convert into to DBF that would be useful too.
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>Just build a routine that loops and appends records into a file.
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>CREATE CURSOR myCursor (cfield C(10), nfield i)
>FOR i = 1 TO 1000000
>INSERT INTO myCursor Values (SYS(2015), i)
>ENDFOR
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>You could get as creative as you want with random values.

I took your advice and built a big table myself. I used an address table that had 1200 records and a name table that had 1000 records and created 1,000,000 records in a table that randomly chose the first name, the last name and the address and put them together. The table is 171 MB. I might double it depending on how the demo goes.

Part of my demo is comparing VFP web access (using Web Connection) to ASP. We have a page in our current system that takes 7 seconds to retrieve a list of records. I wrote the same function in VFP running against the same data in SQL Server. It takes about 1.5 seconds. About 1 second of that is the time the browser takes to display the info.

I may move the table to SQL Server to compare performance.